[189] Copernicus (1473-1543) discovered the error of the [296] old Ptolemaic system of astronomy and showed that the sun is the centre of our planetary system.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

And to this type he is constantly tending to revert, whenever the influence of custom, or of party spirit, or the recollection of the past becomes too strong for him.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

[114] Churchyard, or other public spot.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

“‘The president again arose, and having imposed silence, said,—“Sir, you are too serious and too sensible a man not to understand the consequences of our present situation, and your candor has already dictated to us the conditions which remain for us to offer you.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

And do not suppose that I am so candid out of pure simplicity of soul.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The first few pages of Bede are to a great extent copied out of Pliny, Solinus, Orosius, and Gildas.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

It is not chance, that has placed the sun in the centre of our planetary system; it is by its own essence, that the substance, of which it is composed, must occupy that place, and thence be diffused.
— from Good Sense by Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'

Quick and unrestrained strode the crowd over our pleasant streets, and modesty and respectability fled with averted faces, to the sorrow of the few good men.”
— from The History of Prostitution: Its Extent, Causes, and Effects throughout the World by William W. Sanger

Still, however disappointed at the ill success of his bluff diplomacy with Mr Egerton, and however yet cherishing the most vindictive resentment against that individual—he did not, as many would have done, throw up his political convictions out of personal spite.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 69, No. 427, May, 1851 by Various

I have said enough to show that I do not ignore the historical causes of our present state; but with so many facts with which we can deal confronting us, I propose to review the chief living influences to which the Irish mind and character are still subjected.
— from Ireland In The New Century by Plunkett, Horace Curzon, Sir

While some exhibited their eloquence in defending or accusing prisoners, and others spoke against king, or chiefs of obnoxious parties, some minstrels were still to be found chanting the old romances for ready money.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 05, April 1867 to September 1867 by Various

The hum of watermills, the splash of running water, the clean odour of pine sawdust, the sound and smell of the pleasant wind among the innumerable army of the mountain pines, the dropping fire of huntsmen, the dull stroke of the wood-axe, intolerable roads, fresh trout for supper in the clean bare chamber of an inn, and the song of birds and the music of the village-bells—these were the recollections of the Grünewald tourist.
— from Prince Otto, a Romance by Robert Louis Stevenson

Still, however disappointed at the ill success of his bluff diplomacy with Mr. Egerton, and however yet cherishing the most vindictive resentment against that individual—he did not, as many would have done, throw up his political convictions out of personal spite.
— from The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 by Various